Donna Lynn Hope Quotes

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I don’t miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back...in dreams. That’s when they’re honest.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When he comes for her, it’s only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That’s when she listens.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I shivered as the cold was all encompassing, not just from being outdoors, but from being read as well. He had a way of seeing through me. It was as unnerving as it was bonding and I couldn't figure out how the two could co-exist.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Three of them have the gift of sight but two of them ignore it when what they want most is to believe this one will be different.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement. She looked at the woman in conflict and said, Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy. The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, And how do you do that? she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. By changing the way you think.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People care much more for how things look than how things are.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can’t be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

First bathrooms, now cars. At least people are wearing their seat belts.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it’s best to keep your tally down.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She may be crazy but at least she isn't you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You wonder why he loves her, she's so unlike any other, but any man can love an ordinary woman. They’re everywhere and whereas he’s had other women love him before, they were women who loved a lot, and such love is fickle, never setting anyone apart.Attaining the love of someone known not to love is an honor and the highest level of love there is, because it’s rare, and real.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren't allowed to be together, the more they loved each other.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Not only are the poorest people the most generous but they don't expect anything in return, least of all recognition from others by means of showing off or posting a humble brag like so many from average society do and you can identify these people through the abundance of photos they post, literally with their hands in the air, showing off what they've done for the less fortunate. I guess they missed the part where God said to be humble and to do good works in private.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Attraction isn't wrong. People can’t help who they are drawn to and they certainly can’t control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong is acting on inclination if it hurts someone else, namely a significant other.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Why weren't we born in the same era? he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, How mundane and cliche would that be?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

~ Donna Lynn Hope